[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 make bigide fails on Raspberry Pi2

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

>> I tried what you said. Lazarus runs indeed, but can't compile a 
>> existing project.
>> I get an error stating fpcres could not be found. When I run fpcres on 
>> the command-line it starts and gives some output.
>>
>> I also can't compile lazarus itself (e.g. after adding packages). I 
>> also get the error that fpcres can not be found.
>>
>> Am I missing something ?
> 
> I know this sounds silly, but check fpcres is on the path. My experience 
> it that for Lazarus it's the only program that's needed apart from fpc 
> and ppcarm etc.
> 
> Apart from that... on Raspbian Jessie some projects work and others 
> don't. The one I've got here where I can see a problem also fails on 
> 1.4.4+3.0.0, I think the problem might be when a .lfm is outside the 
> normal project directory.
> 
> I'm about to take a look at other platforms.

In my case on both armhf and amd64 the problems were caused by a 
lingering {$I ... .lrs } directive. This wouldn't show up if either an 
older Lazarus/FPC combination had recently built the project, or if the 
.lrs file was stored in local Subversion.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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